The Fellows 2023/2024

Ph.D., Lecturer in Ecology and Conservation Biology
University of Jos
Assessment and Economic Valuation of Ecosystem Services Provided by Forest-Agricultural Landscapes

College for Life Sciences

Tehran
Women of the Revolution

Ph.D., Anthropologist, Philosopher
Berlin
The Habit of Life

Ph.D., Associate Professor of History, Bayard Dodge Distinguished Visiting Professor 2023–24 at The American University in Cairo
The George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
Profit & Prophecy: Islam and the Spice Trade

Ph.D., Associate Professor of Philosophy
The New School for Social Research, New York
A Critique of Post-Metaphysical Thinking

DPhil, Chair and Professor of Jurisprudence
University of Oxford
Making It Matter

Dr., Professor of Law, Anthropologist
University of Brasília
After the End: Lived Experiences of Women in the Aftermath of the Zika and Covid Emergencies in Brazil

Regisseur
Leipzig
Blaubarts Burg - Ein Labor für dokumentarisch-immersives Musiktheater

Mortier Next Generation-Fellow

PhD, Senior Lecturer in Chemistry
University of Energy and Natural Resources, Sunyani
Progress toward the Development of Artificial Tongues for Smart Detection and Removal of Toxic Metals from Water

Iso Lomso-Fellow

Dr. Dr. h.c. Dr. h.c., Professor of Social Sciences
Polish Center for Holocaust Research
Hiding Jews in Warsaw 1939–1946

Ph.D., Silver Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics
New York University
A Numerical Model for Parity and Imprecision

PhD, Professor of Political Philosophy
University of Oslo
The European Court of Human Rights as Antidote against Authoritarian Populism

Writer
Almaty, Kazakhstan
Phantasmal Republic, a Novel

PhD, Associate Professor of Humanities
Yale-NUS College, Singapore
Confucius the Stoic: The Encounter between Chinese and Western Philosophy in the Global Renaissance

PhD, Dr. h.c., Professor of History and International Affairs
Princeton University
The History of Modern Finance

Dr. jur., Professor für europäische Rechtsgeschichte sowie deutsches und europäisches Privatrecht
University of Münster
Europäische Rechtsgeschichten

Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor, Professor of History and of the SNF Agora Institute
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Hard Histories

Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy
University of California, Berkeley
Philosophical Foundations of Privacy for a Digital Age

Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology
Tel Aviv University
Accounting of the Soul: The Social Life of an American-Jewish “Continuity Crisis”

Dr. phil., Professor für Geschichte
University of Freiburg
Nach dem Krieg. Deutschland in der Welt der 1650er-Jahre

Ph.D., Professor of Neurobiology, Walter F. Heiligenberg Professor of Neuroethology
University of California San Diego
How Memory Circuits in the Brain Use Information about the Past to Inform Future Choices

Ph.D., Professor of Neurobiology
University of California San Diego
Neural Computations in Real Brains and in Artificial Systems

Dr., Evolution and Biodiversity
University of Konstanz
Parasite Dose and the Course of Infection: An Interdisciplinary Meta-analysis

College for Life Sciences

PhD, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
University of Texas at Austin
Scripting Ritual: Classic Maya Religion and the Spread of Hieroglyphic Writing

Fotograf
Berlin
Berlin, VINETA: Eine deutsche Stadtbaugeschichte (Arbeitstitel)

Ph.D., Charles C. and Emily R. Gillispie Chair of the History of Science
Princeton University
Timescapes of Behavior: Long-Term Research and the Birth of Behavioral Ecology

Autorin, Verlegerin
Medusa, Kyiv
Gemeinsamer Horizont

VUIAS Fellowship abroad

Dr., Professor of Economics
École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris
Powering Capitalism. Revisiting the History of Central Banks (19th–21th Centuries)

Ph.D., Evolutionary Systems Biology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
The Evolution of Resource Utilization Strategies in the Gut Microbiome

John Maynard Smith Prize-Fellow

Zoology
University of Aberdeen
Individuals as Particles and Species as Shapes in Infinite Spaces

College for Life Sciences

Ph.D., Cinema Studies, Artist
Berlin / New Delhi
Pneuma

Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy
Dartmouth College
Conceptual Ethics and the Foundations of Normativity

Dr. phil., Professor for Comparative Policy Analysis
University of Vienna
Caring States: Solidarity in a Turbulent World

Dr. rer. nat., Biological Psychology
Leibniz Institute for Resilience Research, Mainz
Digital Biomarkers for Resilience Research

College for Life Sciences

D.Phil., Professor of Evolutionary Genomics
University of Oxford
New Ways of Understanding Cell Evolution through Infographics

Dr. phil., Professorin für Neuere und Neueste Geschichte
University of the Bundeswehr Munich
Hausfrauen. Demokratie, Patriarchat und Konsum in der frühen Bundesrepublik

Dr. iur., Professorin für Recht
University of Hildesheim Foundation
„Klatschen allein genügt nicht“ – ein Plädoyer für ein sorgsames Recht

Professor für Komposition
State University of Music and the Performing Arts Stuttgart
Komposition musiktheatraler, instrumentaler & intermedialer Werke

Dr. phil., Professor für Neuere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Ästhetische Quantitäten: Über das Maß der Künste

PhD, Interdisciplinary Ecology
National Centre for Biological Sciences–Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore
The Jungle Book Reimagined: Constructing Narratives on Nature and Wildlife Using Science and Art

College for Life Sciences

Ph.D., Associate Professor of Sociology
Zhejiang University, Hangzhou
Premodern Empires and Religious Toleration: A Historical Comparative Study

Dr. phil., Professor of Sociology
Université de Montréal
Average Aesthetics or the Regular Haircut. The Aesthetic Dimension of the Social in a German City

Professorin für Schauspiel und Ausbildungsdirektorin, Dramaturgin für Schauspiel und Oper
Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts (HfMDK)
Die Arbeit hinter dem Vorhang: Produktionsweisen des Theaters am Beispiel der Berliner Schaubühne in den Siebziger- und Achtzigerjahren (Arbeitstitel)

Ph.D., Associate Professor of History
Cornell University
Love and Terror: A Revolutionary History of the Manson Murders

Dr. phil., Professor of Philosophy
Goethe University Frankfurt/Main
Time, Subjectivity, and Death

Ph.D., Professor of German
New York University
Popular Antiquities: The Sunken Cities (Folklore and Folk Art Reassessed)

Ph.D., Associate Professor of Sociology
Emory University, Atlanta
Listening to Thunder in Silence: Politics and Ethics of Memory of Tiananmen 1989

Dr. phil., Professor of Political Science
Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul
The Will to Democracy. Democracy in East Asia and a New Global History of Democracy in the 21st Century